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Participating artists:
Mit Achim Mohné, Künstler / Uta Kopp, Designerin, Köln | REMOTE WORDS | https://www.remotewords.net

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

The multi-part workshop REMOTE WORDS provided a deeper insight before and behind the scenes (making of) of the interdisciplinary long-term project at the interface of art, literature, design, internet culture and navigation technologies. In cooperation with institutions from the field of art and culture, suitable messages were found that will be permanently installed on the respective roofs. The capital letters applied with paint form semantic units with the respective location and surroundings. After a certain time, they become visible by means of satellite photography and the view from space and are disseminated worldwide via virtual globes such as Google Earth or Bing Maps. In the course of the winter semester 2022/23, a collaborative process was conducted to find suitable words that are able to represent the identity of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst also over a longer period of time via the view from space. The collaborative conceptualization and decision-making, the application process, and the collaborative implementation are an essential part of the project and are now being implemented by the class.

The workshop was part of the public event series EXPANDED SUSTAINABILITY of the class Artistic Action and Research of Prof. Christin Lahr with guests in the winter semester 2022/23.